The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to invite nominations for the following awards in Lawrence studies: The Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Encouragement of Lawrence Studies. The Mark Spilka Lectureship. Lecture by a distinguished Lawrence scholar to be delivered at the International Conference. Awarded …
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BAMS statement on Black Lives Matter
We at BAMS recognise that more needs to be done to counter the whiteness of academia and of modernism studies, and that we need to do more. In February 2020, The Higher Education Statistics Agency reported that fewer than 1% of professors employed at UK universities are black, whilst 85% are …
Troublesome Modernisms: likely change of venue
BAMS 2019 Conference, Troublesome Modernisms, 20–22 June There is currently a boycott of Senate House in support of the campaign to make outsourced workers (including cleaners, receptionists, security officers, catering staff, porters, audiovisual workers, gardeners and maintenance workers) direct employees of the University of London: https://iwgb.org.uk/en/boycottsenatehouse The BAMS 2019 organisers support this …
BAMS essay competition 2018: winner announced
We’re delighted to announce that the winning essay in the BAMS Essay Competition 2018 is “Humphrey Jennings’s ‘Film Fables’: Democracy and Image in The Silent Village” by Masashi Hoshino. Masashi has recently been awarded his PhD by the University of Manchester. The essay will be published in a forthcoming issue of …
Modernist Network Cymru: elections 2018
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS For: The 2018 Election of the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) Executive Steering Committee + up to two Postgraduate Representatives. On 31 December 2017 the three-year term of the MONC Executive Steering Committee came to an end. We now invite nominations for membership of the Steering Committee and up …
Time to renew your BAMS membership!
Thank you to those of you who have responded to EUP’s reminder and have already renewed your membership of BAMS for the calendar year 2017. We would like to encourage those of you who have not yet renewed to do so via the subscription page at EUP. RENEW NOW You will see that the BAMS memberships …
CfP: Periodicals In-Between – Periodicals in the Ecology of Print and Visual Cultures, Paris 27–29 June 2018
7th International Conference of the European Society for Periodical Research http://www.espr-it.eu 27–29 June 2018 in Paris The 7th annual conference of the European Society for Periodical Research will explore how periodicals from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century function as mediators of alternative or experimental forms of publication and as springboards …
CFP: New Work in Modernist Studies, 15th December 2017
About the conference The seventh one-day Graduate Conference on New Work in Modernist Studies will take place on Friday 15th December at the University of Leeds (School of English), in conjunction with the Modernist Network Cymru (MONC), the London Modernism Seminar, the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, the Northern Modernism Seminar, …
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The 2016 BAMS essay prize results!
Congratulations to Annabel Williams, runner-up George Potts and third place winner Kirstin Smith.
Lecture: From Avant-Garde to Architecture (and Back), London, 21 November
Professor Tyrus Miller (University of California-Santa Cruz) will give a lecture entitled From Avant-Garde to Architecture (and Back) at the Institute of English Studies, London, at 18:00 on November 21. About the paper: This paper considers the complex interactions of the historic avant-gardes with the symbolic idea, theory, and practice of modern architecture. …
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